As announced yesterday in Mashable, the Teens in Tech Incubator program will take place over the course of eight and a half weeks during the summer of 2011. Teens ages 13 to 19 are encouraged to participate in what I think of as summer camp for learning entrepreneurship and building Continue Reading
Remember when Twitter was taking off, and there was a lot of debate about the importance of following back some % of your followers… and not following disproportionately more or less than were following you? It was an interesting way of gauging influence, or desperation for followers in a lot Continue Reading
Now that the holidays are over, I’ve got a whole lot going on at work. Â Today our newest developer evangelist @rahims started, so now we’re up to 6 on my team and I’ve still got open headcount for another developer evangelist and a marketing manager. Â If you or someone you Continue Reading
I’m excited for my hubby, tonight his app TextWeight… which he just launched this morning, is on the front page of TechCrunch. It’s a really simple app. Â You sign up with your phone number, and each morning you get a text asking you your weight that day. Â For me, I Continue Reading
I need to get back to personal blogging, it’s really nice to read back on. I’m excited for this weekend. Â I’ve been sick for the past week (since last Friday) and it’s time for something a little more cheery. Â Here’s the rundown of what I’ve got planned: brunch at my Continue Reading
Tomorrow (December 8th) I’ll be speaking at Parisoma Innovation Loft following the live broadcast of day two of the TED Women event. Â When I was invited to speak, I was honored. Â TED is about “ideas worth spreading” and not a platform for talking about my startup, which suits me just Continue Reading
Congratulations to TechCrunch, who announced yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt that they have been acquired by AOL. I’ve been reading TechCrunch since before I knew I was going to do startups. Â It all started because my friend Blake Scholl was doing a startup, and I set up Google Reader to track Continue Reading
How would you like to have a program that helps you write blog posts faster? Â With Google Scribe I can do just that. Â In this post, I will use the suggestions from Google Scribe to generate some content about social media. Social media is finally about the media in the Continue Reading
Wait… what? This quote from Steve Blank (which I realize is taken out of context, but such is the nature of Twitter, I’m not sure where he was speaking today) definitely rubs the marketer in me the wrong way. Â Why would you ever want to exclude marketing and sales folks Continue Reading
My beloved side project TweetToCall recently turned one year old, and I’ve been procrastinating on re-styling it to look more like a Web 2.0 service and less like a weekend project. Â This post on TechCrunch tonight about the death of phone numbers motivated me to give it an hour of Continue Reading